The Human Resources Manual details the company's policies relating
to people. It is important for several reasons: First of all, it is information that all your staff will want to
know anyway and failure to have the answers will lower the working climate.

Second, you must comply with a tangle of state and federal laws that govern your
personnel policies. The HR manual helps ensure that you have considered and devised an approach to all of
them.

Without this roadmap, you run the risk of innocently violating one or more labor
statutes with potentially serious consequences. You really need a Human Resources manual to produce even a
meaningful staff manual.

The Staff Manual and Human Resources Manual I offer were originally developed for
my own account. They will certainly have to be modified to fit your operation but it is always easier to edit than
it is to create. It took me six months to write them and I wasn't trying to run a restaurant at the same
time!

My Law of Creative Laziness ("Never do any more work than is necessary in order to
achieve the results you want") suggests that you don't try to write manuals from scratch if you can get copies of
other operators' manuals and revise them to meet your own requirements!

To make this process easier, the manuals are available for immediate download as
computer text files in the most popular word processing formats.

SECTION 10 - OTHER
POLICIESHR-1001 Personnel RecordsHR-1002 CommitteesHR-1003 RelocationHR-1004 FlowersHR-1005 Professional MembershipsHR-1006 Hot Line to the Managing DirectorHR-1007 Stationery and Business CardsHR-1008 Training and DevelopmentHR-1009 Political and Religious Activity